Ornament for stoves



(No Model.)

W. L. McDOWELL. ORNAMENT FOR STOVES.

. PatentedJune 26, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM L. .MODOWELL, OF LOWVER MEBION, PENNSYLVANIA.

ORNAM ENT FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,205, dated June 26, 1883.

Application filed January 19, 1883. (No model.) 7

fTo all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. McDow- ELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at and 3.

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My invention consists in forming a stove urn or ornament in sections by avertical division, the sides of which sections have self-locking lugs, whereby said sections may be securely connected without the necessity of rivets or bolts, thus avoiding the danger of breaking or straining the casting, and also producing a cheaper article.

It also consists of novel means for holding the attaching-bolt in position within the urn or ornament.

adapted to receive the head of a screw-bolt, D, the adjacent portion of the bolt resting in the groove Z (See Fig. 4'.) WVhen the bolt is located, the two sections are presented to each other at their inner faces, and by a sliding mo tion of either section the lugs O 0 move along the lugs B, or vice versa, the two sets of lugs thus interlocking, and the urn or ornament maybe located on the stove, the bolt D passing through an opening therein, after which a nut, E, is screwed on the bolt and tightened against the inner or lower side of the stove on which the urn or ornament issupported, whereby the urn or ornament is firmly connected inposition, the bolt D preventing vertical displacement thereof, and' the interlocking lugs B C preventing lateral displacement of the same.

Should it be desired to remove the urn or ornament, the nut E is unscrewed, and as the bolt D is no longer controlled, the urn or ornament may be displaced and its sections sepa rated by a sliding movement, so that the lugs B O disengage.

Should it be desired to add an additional urn-piece or ornament, (see dotted lines, Figs. 2 and 3,) provision is made for clamping said pieces between the sections A A in the cutaway portions (2 of the inner faces of the sec tions, as shown in Fig. 1.

The bottom of the urn or ornament has a flange, e,-which enters a recess in the stove plate, thus assisting to prevent all possible lateral displacement or springing apart of the sections A A, and the contiguous faces of the lugs B C may be inclined in opposite directions to produce a wedging and consequent tightening action between said lugs.

By this construction, while the sections are firmly connected, I avoid the connection of the sections by riveting, which, as well known, causes the breaking of many urns or ornaments, and I accomplish the work of uniting the sections in a simple, easy, and cheap manner, better than heretofore, because the bolt may be removed, when desired, by the separation of the sections, avoiding the further possibility of breaking the same and loss of time in cutting rivets I am aware that it is not new to form stove ornaments in sections having shoulders which abut to locate the parts, and bolts or pins which necessarily hold the sections together, and therefore do not claim such features 5 but in my case the lugs are so constructed as to lock the sections and hold them as one with out the employment of bolts or pins.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters cally into sections, one section having at its 4. Urn or ornament sections having selilocking lugs on their sides, and recesses and grooves on their surfaces, in combination with an attached bolt which is fitted in said recess and groove, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

\V. L. MGDONVELL.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WVIEDERsHEIM, A. P. GRANT. 

